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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
yín - to chant; to recite
- verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems)
- (literary) to lament; to groan
- (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects
- (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)
yín - old variant of 吟[yin2]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 11,528 12,636 11,130

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
呻吟 6 - 9,527 16,223 17,708
- - 11,528 12,636 11,130
吟唱 - - 26,047 31,113 21,135
吟诗 - - 33,928 46,202 36,780
吟诵 - - 40,020 48,700 44,079
吟咏 - - 49,275 59,909 72,901
沉吟 - - 61,555 14,893 43,823
笑吟吟 - - 83,786 37,784 79,473